Thread: 50 US states introduced outsourcing legislations

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50 US states introduced outsourcing legislations

Press Trust of India

Washington, November 30, 2005


Legislation with respect to outsourcing were introduced in nearly all 50 US states as well as in the Congress and there is little to indicate that this legislative trend is going to stop, a new study has indicated.
What is being pointed out is that some of the bills have actually become laws but in most cases they lack teeth. In some cases it has cost states millions of dollars by forcing them to pay contractors in the United States in Call Centres. But lobbying to strengthen legislation is intensifying, Computer World said in its report.

"I think on the state level, these efforts will continue," said Stuart Anderson, executive director for the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) in Arlington, Va. "Once you're a state officeholder and you've introduced one bill, it doesn't take much to keep introducing bills."

There are two groups of lobbying involved in this business of offshoring or outsourcing--Groups of service and blue-collar workers have mobilized to support laws restricting offshoring on the one hand; and Information Technolgy companies on the other that tries to highlight the utility of outsourcing, it said.

For instance the latter group tries to din the idea that the number of jobs lost to offshoring is only a small percentage of the total workforce.

It is said that more than 112 measures relating to outsourcing have been introduced in at least 40 states in the first quarter of 2005--most of those bills have been referred to committees, some are stalled, some have been killed and a handful have passed.

Forrester Research Inc Has forecast the number of outsourced US Jobs to reach 3.3 million by 2015, which translates to about 250,000 layoffs annually. It is being pointed out that the total American employment is roughly 137 million and the layoff as a result of offshoring will account for less than 2 per cent of the Americans who involuntarily lose their jobs.

The expectation is that at the federal level, there will be continued efforts by law makers to curb offshoring and outsourcing; and one way is the introduction of amendments to existing or pending legislation.

Last year two amendments were passed in the Senate restricting outsourcing but these fell through in the conference stage. This time around, House and Senate conferees will have to thrash out an immigration provision in the budget deficit cutting exercise--the Senate has a provision of an additional 30,000 H1B visas and the House version has nothing in it.

Further both the House and the Senate have promised far reaching changes in Immigration provisions in a separate legislation "soon".

The expectation is that law makers will focus on data privacy and identity theft issues in an attempt to curb outsourcing, Computer World pointed out.

Yes - amazon.com has just set up a new business operation in Romania- which has been one of the worst countries for Internet fraud etc.
these Romanians - will now handle information relating to customer accounts-
amazon.com is based in Seattle washington- an area now depressed economically- but with many potential employees with a high level of education. instead of hiring from within washington state- many of their high level postitions are filled by immigrants of Indian orgin-united kingdom etc
would it be too much to ask that Jeff Bezo- founder of amazon- and son of a texas oil employee-( his father gave him $300,000 to start amazon)
show some patriotism to american citizens.
most of his employees are subcontractors with no benefits.
they are called Third party sellers and they pay fees to sell on amazon- working mostly out of their apartments or homes- while there are close to a million of these part time and full time sellers- they have no rights and may be dismissed at any time- by an amazon secret police called the Alliance( Iam not making this up)
IF the ALliance contacts you- you have no way of talking with them or arguing your case--
Most third party sellers do not make enough to live on and must get their health insurance from some other source.
In the past few months- amazon has begun to debit third party sellers for credit card chargebacks from over a year ago.
they do not allow the third party seller any recourse to dispute-.
This is the way of the new world order-

]If you are concerned with Amazon.com's outsourcing policy- please email Jeff Bezo C.E.O. at Jeff@amazon.com

Wow, I had no idea. I did notice there were a lot of third party sellers, but didn't realize why. This upsets me since I use Amazon quite a bit. I think I will send him an e-mail.

Thanks Ginger! and if you need the much hidden amazon customer service 800 number let me know-
you will notice amazon doesnt wish to have people call them